期刊名称：Pakistan Journal of Library and Information Science
印刷版ISSN：1680-4465
出版年度：2009
卷号：10
出版社：University of the Punjab
摘要：Information literacy goes much beyond librarianship. It is a tool to become an aware citizen, updated professional, and is a grass root process for continued education for empowering the citizens and consequently successful and responsible civic living. But it is not anything new for librarians who have been imparting user education to their clients since long. Much has been written on the need, purpose and techniques of information literacy. But this small book deals with the restricted aspect of information literacy education to be taken up by the academic librarians in higher educations institutions. Academic library is viewed as a learning centre with teaching role, and the librarian as an “information empowerment specialist”. The authors aspire to “professionalize the educational role of academic librarians” (p.1), and endeavor to explore “practical ways in which library’s pedagogical involvement in higher education can be strengthened”. A big role! The book places equal emphasis on library as an institution and agency of higher education and the LIS professional as an individual educator. It is a high status role for the beleaguered librarians. Library is treated as an integral partner in higher education which is traditionally called the heart of an academic institution. In the backdrop are explained learning processes and theories. Author’s perceptions are derived from a Norwegian didactic model given by L. L velie (1972, 1974) which visualizes how education theory can enrich and professionalize the practice of library education. Learning is a social practice and higher education is socializing into the academic culture. It is enriched by doing and experience.
